Corn-drill



, UNITED" STATES PATENT OFFICE .ToHNfn. AREAS, or FINDLAY, ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF TO PET R n. ARR-AS, on CANNONSBURG, OHIO.

. CORN-DRILL.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 282,433, dated July 31, 1883.

Application filed December 26, 1882. (No model.)

T all w7tom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN D; 'ARRAS, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Findlay, in the county of Hancock and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful U Improvements in Corn-Drills, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a plan view. Fig. 2 is a vertical. sectional View on the line 00 m. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view on the line 3/ y. Figs.

4, 5, and 6 are detail views.

This invention has relation to-corn-drills; and it consists in the novel construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and. particularly pointed out in the claims. 1

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, a designates the mainframe of the drill; b, the axle, and c c the fixed and loose wheels, the latter being on the right end of the axle, as shown. f

d designates the auxiliary frame, which supports the seed-boxes, racks, and adjusting-levers, hereinafter described.

6 designates the shaft whichcarries the-seed wheels f f" f 2 and the gear-wheel g, and has its bearings in boxes h, at the ends of the main frame, in front and above the axle b. The peripheries of the seed or feed wheels ff f are divided. into four circumferential divisions, the first division, t, of which. is provided with seed-cups or indentations i, spaced to receive and drop the grains of corn at distances of six inches apart. The divisions 1J and'z, respectively, drop the corn at nine and twelve inches apart, and the division j is without indentations, and cuts the feed off entirely when the seed-boxes are properly shiftedby their levers.

Guide-rods k k are supported in arms], rising.

from the auxiliary frame d, in front and in rear of the feed-wheels f f f, and the seedboxes at are provided with bars m, bolted to the sides thereof, having notches n in their ends to engage'the rods k 70 and permit the seed-boxes m to be shifted to regulate or cut off the feed. Hinged arms 0 extend from the inner bars, m, of the end seedeboxes and from the right-hand bar m of the middle seed-box,

and connect with pivoted levers ppp, the

rear ends of which are provided with flanges tion.

four, the one serving'for two levers and the other for one. i The bottoms of the seed-boxes m are made concave to fit over the feed-wheels f f f, and their sheet-metal bottoms r are provided with central slots, r, extending rearward from an inclined shoulder, r". Anadjustable brush, 8, is provided at therearward extremities of the slots 1', a set-screw being employed to hold it in any desired fixed posithe grains of corn and preventcrowding as they pass to the seed-cups. In placing the seed-boxes upon the guide-rods 70 7a a concave strip of tin is introduced between the bottoms The object of the brush is to separate tached to draw-bars a, pivoted to a rod, 26,

The tops of the drill-teeth t have chain-connections v, with cam-levers 11 upon a rocloshaft, 12 at the rear of the main frame. 20 designates the drivers seat, and within reach of it a lever, 10, is connected with the rock-shaft o", for elevating and lowering the drill-teeth, and at the same time having bearings in arms a depending from the front rail of the main frame.

hold the sections in engagement when they are not thrown out by the friction-cam z. The drillteeth or hoes u are provided at the rear portions with adjustable coverers and. smoothers or eveners 3 which may be adjusted vertically to suit varying soils. .Loops A depend from the end rails of the main frame for the recep- A e swis tion of a jointed separable marker, B, one section, B, of which is perforated at G, to receive a pivoted hook, D, for holding the marker in place. The sections B B have chains or other dragging devices attached to their outer ends to mark the ground, so that the drilled rows may be equidistant. The seed-boxes have'sliding covers, preferably; but others may be employed. E designates the tongue of the drill, and F the whiffletrees."

A revolving feed-cylinder having seed-cavities with inclined bottoms has been used prior to my invention, and levers for raising the drill-teeth are also old. I claim only the spe cific constructions herein shown and described.

7 Having thus fully described my invention, what I claini'as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

JOHN D. ARRAS.

" WVitnesses:

W. MUNGEN, r S. J. SIDDALL. 

